"Iraq costs US $12B per month"
 

Hmmmm...how can we fix the upcoming depression?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/...iraq_war_costs

Kill more Muslims thats how.
The more we kill today the better life will be in the future.

Think of it like as an investment.

A war is being fought that Europe was to afraid to touch. After all they got large Muslim populations.

Soon Europe will be called Eurabia.

I agree we are just making haliburton richer.

Chump change:2 cents:

:winkwink:

Take a guess where most of that money is going to?

Dick Cheneys former company Halliburton and KBR. Two lazy fucking companies who sit around making money doing jack shit, did you read cnn today there was a headline about KBR not providing soldiers with clean water, pretty sad

12 billion / 300 million = $40 per citizen. Unfortunately you / your family probably pay like $200+ every month for that war.

I don't understand why USA doesn't just spend that money making the Moon habitable and then ship themselves there forever. Good night.

Teh gay.

bend over ... and take it like good patriots ... it is for YOUR country ....

sig spot! (Note to myself, invest in Haliburton)

12'B' ? 12 Bucks ?

Sounds pretty reasonable to me...

and somewhere, there's a school that doesn't have it in its budget to buy books.

the way the government hides spending in other projects I bet its a lot more then that

Think of all the social problems that could be solved for 12B a month

And that's only the cash cost of the war.

I heard a statistic on NPR today that said if you count all of the other costs of the war - replacement and maintenance costs, taking care of veterans afterward, etc., it's actually a lot closer to $25 Billion a month.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend. Let's give it some perspective:

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive (or so they say).

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no one on earth walked on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes ago at the rate the government is spending it.

The war in Iraq aside, consider this:

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landreiu, is presently asking the U.S. Congress for $250 million to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number...what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman and child) you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Politicians are out-of-control and have completely lost touch with all sense of reality.

I assume you meant 250 BILLION..

there goes christmas :Oh crap

I'm confused here. I thought we were talking about trillions here?

That math doesn't add up. :Oh crap

holy shit.. that is a lot!

+1:2 cents:

the US has already stolen more oil in Iraq than Saddam did in the food for oil program. But somehow I doubt any of that is actually pying for the war, probably just lining Bush's friends pockets :upsidedow

Yep, the only way to keep from fucking our country more is to stop wasting money over there and spend it on useful things.

Oh yea, any oil being stolen from over there is definitely just lining the pockets of Bush, his friends and big oil.

No, the cost of rebuilding N.O. is not just 188K homes, there are businesses, parks, schools, hospitals, roads, infrastructure, etc. etc. so not only are the numbers wrong, but are entirely misleading.

In any event, I wonder how the people of N.O. like hearing how their gov't is spending BILLIONS a month rebuilding Iraq, while they are still homeless. Shows you what Bush really thinks about the "American People". Fucking disgraceful and deserving of a large-scale mutiny ....

the lost cause :(

thats the thing The US has been fucked for so long, that they dont know any different.

I could not make a change myself, so I left.

Be a true patriot and bitch-slap a politician today!

Post your source for/on this accusation.

You mean turn the entire county into nanny care for people who wont help themselves but are asking everyone else to do it for them?

There are over 500 construction companies doing work in Iraq right now and somehow you have inside info saying that MOST of the money is going to Halliburton and KBR?

Lazy companies, you must be really uneducated or just ignorant to say they are lazy.

Clean water has been an issue over there since day 1, clean water is an issue here in the US still today...so whats your point?

If they want us to foot the bill..Yes.

WW2 solved the Great Depression, WW3 will solve the next one. :2 cents:

So your a Ron Paul Supporter but yet you just said you would be ok with a Bolshevik Social-Democratic style of government? If so your supporting the wrong person in Ron Paul, that style of government goes against everything Ron Paul represents.

Looks like your seriously uneducated on issues and people you support or your just dumb....im thinking its both.

Notoldschool is a college boy, no experience, and thinks he knows what life is because he smokes weed, and fucked a crack whore.

We want Old School back. New education system is the problem.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=58061
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN' Next on school agenda: Teaching communism

Leftist spies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_and_Julius_Rosenberg) gave the atomic bomb plans to Stalin and Stalin was going to nuke the US just before he died.

I might be more efficient (and cheaper) to carpet bomb Iraq with 20 $ bills...then they would all love you over there...

That's actually $515.81 per citizen, not $516k like you stated.

You just dont get it. Read what I wrote. "IF we are going to foot the bill" I will break it down for ya. If I got to pay for your shitty war, and line your pockets at the same time, they might as well give us some kind of services.
FYI i held above 3.5 throughout my higher education. Far from uneducated.


Another dumb troll makes his way into my thread. I am far from a college boy seeing as I served in Panama, then Bosnia, while earing 6 bars and never recieving even close to an article 15. Ive been stationed all over the world, ft drum, ft stewart, Aberdeen proving grounds, rhein main, Camp Bedrock, as well as many places I would love to forget. Its much more likely that you never served your country, have never been out of your mothers basement, are a life long member of the D & D club, while holding the title of dungeon master, so STFU loser.

It would be nice to know how many things can be done with $12 billion a month.

Iraq cost over 4.000 US soldiers died there.

Fucking leftists will ruin democracy. If we had listened to them, no WW1, no WW2, and you would speak German by now.

Leftists = Bunch of immature kids, self-haters, cowards.

"Oh my god, someone died" HOW TERRIBLE, moron. You just realized people died every second? We were born to die, ASSHOLE.

What a bunch of retards, i would deport all of you to North Korea and Cuba.

Soldiers are heroes and serve their country, not like you pussies behind your fucking computer fighting the democracy they are dying for.

PEOPLE KILL EACH OTHER EVERYDAY EVERYWHERE.

WE WILL ALL DIE, NEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Maybe tomorrow u r going to die, you never know.

SO PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP.

If this is your belief than you and the rest of your family please use this page pussy http://www.goarmy.com/contact/find_a...r.jsp?hmref=cs

misplaced your meds ?????

The war was funded primarily out of "emergency" appropriations. It was difficult for Joseph Stiglitz (a nobel prize winning economists) to find these appropriations when he was trying to accurately calculate the cost of the war. He had to use the Freedom of Information act to get access to the information.

Also, the true cost of the war isn't just the cost of operations in Iraq. For example, the health care and disability of wounded soldiers needs to be included in the cost. His work shows the cost of the war to be $3 trillion dollars.

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/

And his testimony to the Joint economic committee.

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty..._testimony.pdf

I read what you wrote and clearly understood it the first time. If your for 12 Billion a month going into government funded social programs then your not a Ron Paul supporter. Nor are you educated on the beliefs of different political parties and what they represent. And by you saying "If we are going to foot the bill" makes no sence when we already footing the bill.

And who is this "Your" you keep making reference to when you say "your shitty war" and "line your pockets"? I dont care about any 3.5 GPA and your higher education. But when it comes to you having common sence and/or understanding politics your pretty uneducated on all the issues.

Just because one supports a particular candidate does not and should not mean that you agree with every stance he has. Or didnt you get the memo?

No memo needed to understand the basics between what Ron Paul supports and what the Bolsheviks supported. Nice of you to dodge my other questions.

But atleast we spread democracy?

now thats some damm shit